Luigi Alamanni

Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556)

Luigi Alamanni (born March 6, 1495 in Florence , Italy , † April 18, 1556 in Amboise , France ) was an Italian poet and humanist .

Life

Alamanni was an opponent of Giulio de 'Medici . After the uprising was discovered in 1522, he and Zanobi Buondelmonte were able to flee to Venice and then to France. After the fall of the Medici family , he was able to return to Florence in 1527. In 1529 he was the representative of Florence to Emperor Charles V in Savona. In 1530 he was expelled from Genoa, where he was staying at the time as a Florentine representative, and fled again to France, as Florence was besieged by the imperial troops. The fall of Florence and the return of the Medici, who immediately banished him, made a return impossible, which is why he tried to make himself popular at the French court. Through his education and skill he found the confidence of the French kings Franz I and Henry II.

In 1539 he returned to Italy as secretary to Cardinal Ippolito d'Este for over a year. In 1541 he was special ambassador for Francis I in Venice, in 1544 in Venice. There is no evidence for the sometimes alleged embassy to Emperor Charles V. In 1551 he was supposed to move Genoa to France on behalf of Henry II, but he had no success. In 1553 he brought Maria Tudor the gifts and congratulations of the French king on her coronation. In the last years of his life, Alamanni devoted himself intensively to the revision of his writings. His fame is primarily based on the poem about agriculture, inspired by the Api des Cosimo Rucellai - an important testimony to the Franco-Italian cultural exchange during the Renaissance .

Fonts

as an author

• La Coltivazione . Cisalpina-Goliardica, Milan 1981, ISBN 88-205-0314-X (reprint of the Milan 1804 edition).
• Di Girone il cortese. Romanzo cavalleresco (1548) . Antonelli, Venice 1836 (reprint of the Florence edition 1549).
• L'Avarchide . Lancelotti, Bergamo 1809 (reprint of the Florence edition 1540).

as translator

• Sophocles : Antigone . Edizioni Res, Turin 1997, ISBN 88-85323-24-3 .
• Flora. Commedia (Teatro italiano; vol. 4). Milan 1809 (reprint of the Florence 1555 edition).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Didactic poem about rural life, EA 1546; Dedicated to Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême, duchesse de Berry .
2. ↑ Italian processing Guiron le Courtois ; Dedicated to Heinrich II .
3. ^ Based on motifs from Lancelot du Lac .
4. ↑ Made between 1520 and 1527.

literature

• Vincenzo Benini: Annotazioni sopra la coltivazione de Luigi Alamanni. In cui si contengono moltissimi avvertimenti utili e dilettevoli per gli studiosi dell'agricoltura . Seminario, Padua 1745.
• Elisabeth Frege Gilbert: Luigi Alamanni. Politics and poetry, from Machiavelli to Franz I. PEter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-631-54126-0 (also dissertation, University of Hannover 2005).
• Alois Girardelli: Dei poemi georgici nostrali ed in particolare della Coltivacione di Luigi Alamanni Hilari, Gorizia 1900.
• Henri Hauvette: Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556). Sa vie et son œuvre. Un exilié florentin à la cour de France au XVIe siècle . Hachette, Paris 1903.
• Francesco Montorsi: L'autore rinascimentale ei manoscritti medievali. Sulle fonti del "Gyrone il cortese" by Luigi Alamanni . In: Romania, Revue trimestrielle , Vol. 127 (2009), Issue 505/506, pp. 190-211, ISSN  0035-8029 .
• Robert Weiss: Alamanni, Luigi . In: Alberto Bentoglio (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Vol. 1 . Bulzoni, Rome (online at treccani.it , Italian)